Big Bad Anthology: Call for Submissions

BIG BAD ANTHOLOGYhttp://johnhartness.com/big-bad-anthology/
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Send me your best short story (6,000 words max, if it has to
be longer contact me first) that features a bad guy or evil
character as the protagonist. It can be fantasy, urban fantasy,
superhero, horror, whatever. Just send me your best bad guy
story. I’m taking twenty. Email submissions to johnhartness@gmail.com as a .doc or .txt attachment. Include a brief author’s bio, please.

Paying $50 for one year’s exclusive electronic and print rights
plus two contributor’s copies. After that we retain rights to
publish electronically in the anthology only, and in print in
this anthology only, but you can take it and sell it somewhere
else, or sell it yourself as a standalone. Deadline July 31, 2012.

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